Oud Eau de Parfum
Acqua di Parma's Oud opens with a bright orange accent that quickly yields to darker impulses—a smoky, resinous heart that feels more Italian leather workshop than Gulf souq.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Woody75
- Leather75
- Musky60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAcqua di Parma's Oud opens with a bright orange accent that quickly yields to darker impulses—a smoky, resinous heart that feels more Italian leather workshop than Gulf souq. The oud here is restrained, filtered through sandalwood and cedar until it reads as polished wood rather than barnyard funk. Patchouli adds earthiness without going full seventies headshop.
As it settens, the leather note emerges more clearly, supple and slightly sweet, while musk rounds the edges into something surprisingly wearable for an oud composition. The base is warm and close to the skin, more boardroom than incense burner.
This is oud for the tailored-blazer set—those who want the gravitas of the note without its more challenging facets. It splits the difference between Acqua di Parma's citrus heritage and contemporary demands for something richer, landing somewhere between Italian refinement and a nod eastward.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
